How could you miss these guys. Trailers for rent 50 cents and Boxcar has a whole theater in Branson MO.
Never heard of them. Neither did Harvey & Johnston.
And the story could have been continued with Old 97 and WWII's Chattanooga Choo-choo.
I've been working on the railroad?
But it was a good read. Glad I had ridden the City of New Orleans as a coach streamliner, several times, but never on a full overnight. When that necessity arose, clients would pay for me to use the Panama. The City was mostly New Orleans - Jackson or Chicago - Carbondale or Chicago - Champaign.
Glad that I had that experience with hymn singing and electric piano playing in the lounge car of the Crescent on the way to an American Guild of Organists' Convention in Atlanta.
I wish Ellis the best of success with his railroad.
A metric "tonne' of good stuff was left out. While I'm sure Kevin Keefe made a sincere effort he was only given so many words (pages) in which to recall every country artist and pop singer to acknowledge their contributions he was working with 'limited space'. It would have taken the entire issue to recognize all the singers and song writers who used trains as the basis for their songs. It was a tough assignment but Keefe made a good attempt at covering the bases. While not covering everything it still was an interesting read, and I did learn something from his article.
Norm
Norm48327 A metric "tonne' of good stuff was left out. While I'm sure Kevin Keefe made a sincere effort he was only given so many words (pages) in which to recall every country artist and pop singer to acknowledge their contributions he was working with 'limited space'. It would have taken the entire issue to recognize all the singers and song writers who used trains as the basis for their songs. It was a tough assignment but Keefe made a good attempt at covering the bases. While not covering everything it still was an interesting read, and I did learn something from his article.
Well, they couldn't get everyone, it's a magazine article, not a doctoral dissertation.
Good article just the same though. And I REALLY like that Thomas Hart Benton painting that leads it off.
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